List of University of Edinburgh people

This is a list of notable graduates as well as non-graduate former students, academic staff, and university officials of the University of Edinburgh in Scotland.

It also includes those who may be considered alumni by extension, having studied at institutions that later merged with the University of Edinburgh.

[dubious – discuss] The university is associated with 20 Nobel Prize laureates, three Turing Award winners, an Abel Prize laureate and Fields Medallist, four Pulitzer Prize winners, three Prime Ministers of the United Kingdom, and several Olympic gold medallists.

Recipients of the Victoria Cross: Recipients of the George Cross:

Sir Edward Appleton , Nobel laureate in Physics in 1947 for his discoveries of the ionosphere , was principal from 1949 to 1965.